Past Quotes

Not only am I a spender, I have had a couple of business people in the past who have been spending my money quite happily.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Today, there's an expectation that you get to know public people. In the past, it was much more what you did and how you presented yourself.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

I've been able to make films over the past 10 years but still maintain my anonymity.

I used to stay up at night and sneak into the TV room, past my parents, who were asleep, to watch Saturday Night's 'Main Event.' That's how I started watching SNL. On accident.

If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament - disarmament follows peace.

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

We must not try to force him to take civilization immediately in its complete form, but under just laws, guaranteeing to Indians equal civil laws, the Indian question, a source of such dishonor to our country and of shame to true patriots, will soon be a thing of the past.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.

I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

Don't trust anyone who has been in school for the past 24 consecutive years.

As financial markets continue to broaden and deepen, the behavior of asset prices will play an important role in the formulation of monetary policy going forward, perhaps a more important role than in the past.

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

I don't care about the past.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came to do three things. He came to have my past forgiven, you get a purpose for living and a home in Heaven.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

I wanted to make pictures where you would not know who took them. I also bring the present into the past.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.